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On September 23, 2022, a new PATROLL contest, with a $2,000 cash prize, was added seeking prior art on U.S. Patent 6,920,494, owned by Focus Global Solutions, an NPE and Jeffrey M. Gross entity. The ‘494 patent generally relates to a storage area network (SAN). The patent has been asserted against NetApp, Dell, VMware, Broadcom, and Oracle.
The contest will expire on November 30, 2022. Please visit PATROLL for more information and to submit an entry for this contest.
Unified is pleased to announce PATROLL crowdsourcing contest winners, Ekta Aswal and Ganesan Rajamanickam, who split a cash prize of $2,000 for their prior art submissions for U.S. Patent 9,674,132, owned by Linfo IP LLC, an NPE and subsidiary of Dynamic IP Deals, LLC. The '132 patent generally relates to a user interface for managing emails and other message communications and are disclosed as solutions for reducing confusion and avoiding mistakes in communications when replying to a message with multiple recipients.
We would also like to thank the dozens of other high-quality submissions that were made on this patent. The ongoing contests are open to anyone, and include tens of thousands of dollars in rewards available for helping the industry to challenge NPE patents of questionable validity by finding and submitting prior art in the contests. Visit PATROLL today to learn more about how to participate.
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On September 7, 2022, a new PATROLL contest, with a $2,000 cash prize, was added seeking prior art on U.S. Patent 6,696,957, owned by Healthness, LLC, an NPE and Jeffrey M. Gross entity. The ‘957 patent generally relates a system and method for remotely ascertaining movement or non-movement of an individual in order to determine a possible emergency condition. The patent is being asserted against Oura, Adidas, Under Armour, and Garmin.
The contest will expire on November 30, 2022. Please visit PATROLL for more information and to submit an entry for this contest.
On September 7, 2022, a new PATROLL contest, with a $2,000 cash prize, was added seeking prior art on U.S. Patent 9,350,649, owned by Competitive Access Systems, an NPE. The ‘649 patent generally relates to a broadband communications device that combines all voice, data, and video communications. The patent is being asserted against Oracle.
The contest will expire on November 30, 2022. Please visit PATROLL for more information and to submit an entry for this contest.
On September 7, 2022, a new PATROLL contest, with a $2,000 cash prize, was added seeking prior art on U.S. Patent 7,715,564, owned by Lilly Pathway, LLC, an IP Edge entity. The patent generally relates to at least two terminal apparatuses using content data in accordance with license information which is generated by a content distribution system to which it subscribes. A conversion apparatus includes a working area for storing license information which is compatible with one of the terminal apparatuses, and a central processing section for converting the license information stored in the working area into license information which is compatible with the other terminal apparatus. Thus, there is provided a conversion apparatus which can convert one's own license information so as to be passable to others. The patent has been asserted against Polaris, Deloitte, Salesforce, The Coca-Cola Company, and Georgia Pacific.
The contest will expire on November 30, 2022. Please visit PATROLL for more information and to submit an entry for this contest.
